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Archive for the 'Systems' CategoryGhosting to the wrong diskMonday, February 18th, 2008The other day I was starting up Norton Ghost to recover an old ghost image and setup a clean machine. I went through the menus as I usually do on autopilot, source, destination, etc… Checking if a registry key is WRP ProtectedWednesday, May 2nd, 2007Many developers for Vista noticed all the new issues with editing and/or deleting registry keys. The new security measures turned the whole registry model to a major pain for developers. Vista’s speech recognition no jewelThursday, February 15th, 2007This may be funny or this may be sad, but this is the state of speech recognition in Windows Vista. Who can really run Vista?Thursday, December 7th, 2006According to a recent study, 94 percent of business PCs in North America do not meet the minimum requirements for Vista. Beside the fact that Microsoft tend to underestimate the real requirements of it’s systems upon release in published statements, the picture is pretty gloomy. Restoration: File Recovery FreewareTuesday, October 17th, 2006When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Its hard drive space is made available for use, but until that space is overwritten, your old data is usually intact. Restoration by Brian Kato recovers such files on either FAT or NTFS partitions. Windows Vista RC1 ready for public testingThursday, September 7th, 2006Feel like trying out Windows Vista? Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is ready for public testing. Grab it and test it for yourself. Windows Vista prices leaked - Ooh really?Tuesday, August 29th, 2006At first is seemed like yet another blooper hits a big company. Microsoft Canada supposedly accidentally released Windows Vista pricing on Microsoft’s Canadian website. When the mistake was “found” the listings were remove promptly. Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows 2003Sunday, August 13th, 2006Shutdown Event Tracker provides a way for System Administrators and IT professionals to track and log why a servers are being restarted or shut down. It gathers the reasons users/administrators give for restarts and shutdowns to help create a comprehensive picture of an organization’s system environment. Tripwire Cheat SheetWednesday, July 26th, 2006This is a very short Tripwire Cheatsheet with all common commands and maintainance action. No explanations or information on the command rundown. If anything is missing let me know. Windows generation system requirementsTuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Last Thursday Microsoft published the minimum hardware requirements for Windows Vista. I was getting the feeling Vista’s specs skyrocketed out of proportion. Previous system requirements for Microsoft systems were usually above market level, and this was the base for the Wintel alliance, but this time it seems a little too much. I went Vista delayed, again!Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Let’s pretend we’re all surprised… ooh haa…. Why? Microsoft Windows Vista will be delayed, again! According to latest reports, Windows Vista will be available only around the second quarter of 2007, months after Microsoft has promised. Keeping Linux MBR on a multiboot reinstallThursday, January 26th, 2006Let’s say you have a multi-boot installation of Windows and Linux on the same machine. Let’s continue to assume that at some point you will need to reinstall Windows due to unremovable spyware, clogging, “mandatory” system refresh, or any other reason. Windows XP and Vista Side-by-SideThursday, January 12th, 2006
BentUser does a side-by-side comparison of some of the new features in Windows Vista with the corresponding ones in Windows XP. What has changed? Nexenta Operating SystemTuesday, November 15th, 2005
Nexenta is a new operating system. Aren’t well all ecstatic Some will not call it a complete new operating system, and I may tend to agree with them. So let’s see what we have here. |
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